A Great Find & A Defense of E-Bay

From: Don Maslin <donm_at_cts.com>
Date: Fri Jun 16 16:56:35 2000

On Fri, 16 Jun 2000, Charles P. Hobbs (SoCalTip) wrote:

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> On Fri, 16 Jun 2000, Dave McGuire wrote:
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> > On June 16, Charles P. Hobbs (SoCalTip) wrote:
> > > Not to mention, only so many people who would know what to *do* with
> > > an old Commodore, VAX, TI 99, etc. As far as the rest of the world is
> > > concerned, it's "trash"....
> >
> > Only our broken, brain-damaged society can take a thing that does
> > it's job just as well as when it was new, and call it "trash" simply
> > because something newer (not necessarily "better") has been
> > announced by the vendors. Fascinating...and disturbing.
> >
> I'm sure that if you did a web search, you'd find thousands of essays
> deploring our "consumerist, throw-away society". I won't write one here.
>
> > My primary car is a '95. It continued to run just fine when the '96
> > came out. There's a clue in there somewhere.
>
> Big difference, though. A car is a car is a car. As long as it keeps

I'm sure that there are a number of Ferrari, Lamborghini, and Lotus
owners out there who would think that you are daft!

                                                 - don

> running well and doesn't cost too much to fix, keep it. I never understood
> the mentality saying you gotta have a new car every year, or whatever.
>
> I *do* know there is a big difference between my Apple II (which still
> does yeoman service running my Syntauri synthesizer) and the
> PowerComputing PowerCenter 240 that I do most of my "real work" on. And,
> no, I'm not going back to the Apple II and a dot-matrix printer to do my
> newsletters on, or surf the Net.
>
> So as far as the non-computer-collecting community is concerned (how's
> that for alliteration, huh?), things have improved exponentially since the
> early days of the Imsai, the Apple or even the original IBM-PC. There's no
> real reason for them to store, let alone maintain the older
> equipment....and, unless one of us geeks hears about it, and is in a
> position to "rescue" said equipment...off to the landfill/scrapper/China
> it goes...
>
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Received on Fri Jun 16 2000 - 16:56:35 BST